Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Six Tasks Part 1 – The Chart

    Several weeks ago, I taught a full day workshop on writing and publishing. I’ve decided to post some excerpts from the workshop here on the blog – although attendance at the workshop was really good, everyone in the world was not there. You might have missed it. This segment – Six Tasks – was really…

  • Books Standing Alone

    This is a pondering post, and I welcome your comments on it. It’s about something that has confused me for a long time, and maybe some of you have some ideas that will clarify the issue for me. One of the things I always want to do with linked books is have continuing story threads.…

  • Into Every Blog Tour…

    …some real blog posts must fall. This is one of them. In the midst of all this release promo – and that upcoming holiday stuff too – I’ve been writing a book. EMBER’S KISS will be #8 in the Dragonfire series of paranormal romances and it will be published in October 2012. The writing of…

  • Amazon Author Page URLs

    I’m not sure why I need these, or how exactly they’re different from the old Amazon Author Pages, but I do have them and here they are. Deborah Cooke Amazon Author Page Claire Delacroix Amazon Author Page And now you know. 🙂

  • Eureka!

    One of the most common questions asked of authors is “where do you get your ideas?” I never have a good answer for this. Telling people that I have too many ideas and hate having the choose between them doesn’t ever seem to be the answer that is expected. The thing about ideas is that…